Join us for our Author Spotlight Series featuring Margaret Andrews. During this hour, she will discuss her new book, Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding, and answer your questions live.
About the Book:
What is the “best” way to lead others? The answer may surprise you.
The basis for powerful, effective leadership comes from within — from understanding the people, ideas, and events that have shaped your worldview and how these influences express themselves in your leadership style. In Manage Yourself to Lead Others, leadership expert Margaret Andrews helps you understand yourself and translate this understanding into effectively managing yourself, leading others, working with your boss, and making better decisions.
Andrews has taught thousands of executives in her professional development course at Harvard, and she shares her insights, practical tips, and questions for reflection here. This book will allow you to identify the kind of leader you want to be, the behavioral patterns that help get you there or stand in your way, and what it takes to develop new leadership capabilities. Whether you’ve just been promoted or you’ve been leading a team for decades, Manage Yourself to Lead Others is essential reading for all leaders.
About the Author:
Margaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, professional speaker, and instructor with over thirty years of professional experience. She has held a variety of senior management positions and has taught, spoken, and consulted across the globe. She creates and teaches a variety of courses and professional and executive programs at Harvard, including Managing Yourself and Leading Others, Emotional Intelligence in Leadership, Understanding and Evolving Organizational Culture, Strategic Leadership, It Depends: Unpacking the Problems and Paradoxes of Leadership, and the Executive Program for Senior Life Sciences Leaders.
She is also the founder of The MYLO Center, a private leadership development firm, and author of the forthcoming book, Manage Yourself to Lead Others, which will be published by Basic Venture Books (Hachette) in September 2025. Margaret has held a variety of positions in business and higher education, including Associate Dean at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education, Vice Provost at the Hult International Business School, and Executive Director of the MBA Program, Alumni Relations, and Marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Prior to her career in higher education, she held positions as Vice President of Marketing at Putnam Investments, Consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman), and as a CPA at Deloitte and Touche.
Margaret hails from California and has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and earned her graduate degree at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was named a Seley Scholar, the school’s highest honor.
